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Cozy Fantasy
Summer 2025 Readalong
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Reading...The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear, #1)
My Taste
Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

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All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Elizabeth Comen

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This Will Be Fun

This Will Be Fun

E.B. Asher

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Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

Emma R. Alban

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The Amalfi Curse

The Amalfi Curse

Sarah Penner

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snowseau commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Pettiest DNF reasons

    If you're someone who DNFs books, what's one of the silliest or pettiest reasons you've stopped reading? I'll go first with some of mine: - The author kept repeating the same words/phrase, I couldn't stop noticing it and after 4 chapters I'd had enough - The MMC had the same name as an ex and I wasn't about to read a whole book where he gets a happy ending - They didn't use any punctuation marks at all Please tell me I'm not the only one who abandons books that should be interesting to me for ridiculous reasons?

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  • Are there any books you can’t manage to get your hands on?

    Meaning, you can’t find it at any local bookstore or public library? I feel like this happens to me all the time. There are a lot of little gems on my list that once I find them, I feel so excited because I’ve had to search or wait for them for so long. Right now I can’t find: - Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith - The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza - All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology by Circe Moskowitz I’m curious about what other elusive books other people might be looking for 🕵️‍♀️📖

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  • Share your hidden gems !

    What are some books you adore that you rarely see recommended or being talked about? Feel free to give a little summary :) Heard about them once and then never again: - the Hostage of Empire series by S.C.Emmet. It's an adult political fantasy trilogy inspired by east asian history. It follows the lady-in-waiting of a princess being betrothed and sent over to her fiance's coutry. He's the heir and brother of 5 other princes (from the Queen and 2 concubines) and the FMC and her lady are immediately thrown into court intrigues and scheming from all sides, often with deadly results. It's brilliant and I'm constantly looking for similar books. -The Light between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth. It's a YA magical realism/fantasy about 2 sisters who crossed to another world as children and started settling there before abruptely getting sent back to our world. One sister wants to forget and move on, the other falls into deep depression, always searching for a way back. It's crazy to me that it's considered YA because it goes DARK, but I'm a sucker for that kind of "Narnia but if they delved a lot deeper with the trauma that this would have created" and that book had me by the throat. Only rarely mentionned: -The Winnowing Flame trilogy by Jen Williams. Incredibly cool and original lore, 3 povs (an excentric adventurer, a witch locked up by a cult, and a.. tree vampire? Honestly, awesome concepts) crossing paths as an acient threat comes back to life, except the race that saved the world before is now almost extinct after their life-force vanished and they turned on humans. -The Conqueror's Saga by Kiersten White. YA (once again, where??) historical fiction. Kind of retelling about the daughter (and son) of Vlad the Impaler, who inspired Dracula. It's about those kids being given to the Ottoman Empire as hostages for political gain and grow up with the son of a Sultan, and how they go from there, as their worldview change (in drastically different ways) while war is forever on the horizon. Lada, the FMC is THE anti-heroine. She's cruel, ugly, ruthless and bitter. I loved her. Her, and her sweet brother, and the sultan's son and their incredibly complicated and heart breaking dynamic while each fights for what they want (spoiler, it's incompatible). -The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon. A 90s -first military- then epic fantasy about a 18yo woman running away from an arranged marriage to join a mercenary company. Very classic, old-school, it took me a while to get into the 1st, but by the end I felt like I'd gone through hell and back with Paks. -Babylonia by Constanza Casati. It's a famous author, it's wild to me that I never hear anyone talk about it. Reimagining of the rise to power of the Assyrian empire's only female ruler. It's beautiful, it's got the most toxic love triangle (but I say that as a love triangle hate. That one is mutual love and fascination, and adorable, and loyalty, and bitterness through every line of that triangle. Co-dependency, but three-way).

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  • Who are your auto-buy authors?

    Is there anyone whose books you immediately pre-order before barely checking what they're about? For me it's: - Kristen Britain - Lucy Holland - Adrienne Young - Laini Taylor

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    Time Loops & Meet Cutes

    Time Loops & Meet Cutes

    Jackie Lau

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    snowseau commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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    Libby - Getting Extra Library Cards to Link in App

    If anyone is looking for additional library cards to add to Libby - there's an online library for QLL = Queer Liberation Library and you can apply online for an online membership card and link it to Libby. In case anyone wants to also support the QLL. Full disclosure, this is for USA/CA Residents, I'm not sure if it works for International. https://www.queerliberationlibrary.org/ For CA residents - if you didn't already know, you only need to be a State resident to apply for free library cards in person, so any city you drive by, if you have time, you should totally stop by to get a card. Does anyone else have tips / tricks on getting more Free library cards to be able to link in the Libby App? For USA Residents and International. Please list your Country/State when commenting so others know for location purposes to figure out how we can borrow more free books at one time.

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  • Short book recommendations?

    My Kindle broke (yes, I want to die) and I’m not buying another one right away. I also just bought Morning Star so I don’t want to buy another physical book. And I don’t really want to read any of the books I own rn because they are all fantasy and I feel like I’m still very much in the Red Rising world so I don’t think I’m going to enjoy a fantasy/scifi type of read at the moment as much. All this to say, that I have to read on my phone like when I was in high school while I’m waiting for Morning Star to arrive, and I don’t want to read a longer book because I guess I just think that’s kind of uncomfortable on my little phone screen? Anyway I don’t really have a lot of short books on my tbr so if you guys have any recommendations let me know!

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  • Book recs

    I love fiction books but I tend to dislike when romance is distracting. I'm looking for a story to entrance me that I can't put down without romance. Would love to hear what everyone likes!

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  • Bridgerton Collection Volume 2 (Bridgertons, #4-6)
    Thoughts from 33%

    I just finished Romancing Mr. Bridgerton, and I have to say, in comparison to the first three books in this series, this one takes the cake. There was so much banter not just between Penelope and Colin, but also between her and other characters. I feel like the personalities of the Bridgertons who hadn't yet had stories (in this case, Eloise and Hyacinth) are properly established now. Although I do prefer how this book was portrayed in the show, so far it's my favourite of the book series.

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  • snowseau commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • gimme ur five stars rec pls

    anyone have a MASTERPIECE recommendation? just wanna get outta my reading slump tho

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  • 1st person vs 3rd person - Which POV do yall read in!

    When I was younger, the book's POV didn't really matter to me, but now I only want to read 3rd person! Which one do you guys prefer? Third POV allows me to isolate myself from the character, as I think the characters are complex and unexpected. I can make conclusions based on their actions/behaviors. But I get that third POV can be confusing with which individual is speaking or doing LOL.

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  • I'm going on holiday and I'm taking ALL the books

    I need your help to settle a discussion! So, 14 days of vacation, how many books would YOU take? 🤨 Obviously, there has to be a collection to pick from, depending on mood and everything! But total number, how many books would end up in your luggage?

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  • Sapphic Action Books

    Does anyone have any recommendations for sapphic action novels? I need something that is action pact but yet still has the romance portion of it as well. Thanks y'all🤍

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    Completed fantasy romance recs series (2 or 3 books max) please!

    I've been reading contemporary romance and thrillers a lot.. so I need a fantasy romance series to be obsessed with!!! So please recommend completed series with max 2 or 3 books

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  • Favorite Children Picture Book?

    I got a 3yo and a 17mo, and I need some picture book recommendations! We are almost through our personal library of secondhand picture books (read multiple times). We are ready to start borrowing from the library but there are SOOOO many books to choose from there. I need a starting point hahaha.

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